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Gellner nations and nationalism5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() There has been a lot of debate on the origins, causes and consequences of the rise nationalism. ![]() The last empire to collapse in the early 1990s was the Soviet-Union. In the decades following the Second World War most African and Asian countries gained independence, thus dissolving the European colonial empires. After the First World War, the Austrian Empire disappeared and was succeeded by a whole number of new nation-states, while Ireland gained independence from Great-Britain. During the nineteenth century it also began to affect the Ottoman Empire, where Greece and some of the Balkan states gained independence. It first made headway in Western Europe and the Americas. The idea that every nation should have its own state is of quite recent origin, but the implementation of nationalist ideals went quite quickly. However, only slightly more than sixty years ago approximately half of the world population still lived in large multi-national or multi-ethnic empires, while the nation-state itself is not much older than two hundred years. Nowadays the world is divided in nation-states and this is seen as completely logical. The number of participants is limited to 25. This course is only available for second year students in the BA International Studies. ![]()
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